{"id":103,"date":"2006-10-14T02:30:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T00:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/2006\/have-sunlight-will-wifi\/"},"modified":"2006-10-14T02:30:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T00:30:56","slug":"have-sunlight-will-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Have Sunlight, Will WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an effort to bridge the digital divide and with hopes of becoming the perfect supplement to the US$100 OLPC<\/a>, the Green WiFi project has designed a solar powered WiFi relay station<\/a>. The basic idea is that a grid of relaying stations can provide an entire area with internet access without being dependent on a reliable external source of power. Using standard off-the-shelves components and open source software the network should ultimately become a self sustaining, self healing, network solution that is cost effective and easy to deploy.<\/p>\n

[The] software operate without extensive planning or central management, automatically figures out the fastest way to reach from point A to point B and continuously monitors the network paths […].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Without doubt, necessity and creativity will develop and refine the technology even further ? and from where I stand the project is more interesting as a proof-of-concept than as a packaged product. What I want to know is: How do I build one myself? <\/p>\n

I wrote about a book<\/a> a couple of months back that attempted to be a DIY manual for cheap wireless networking. The logic is that people in rural areas – in developing countries – can operate and maintain their own network, if given the proper knowledge how these things work. In every village, there are people who can fix and build just about anything – from microwave ovens to combustion engines – so why not computer networks? If this was to be deployed in real life situations there are a lot of hacks<\/a> that can be done to enhance the range and reception of these devices. <\/p>\n

Relying on local knowledge like that is to me a great strength, so the question is if it’s possible to integrate it into Green WiFi?s plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an effort to bridge the digital divide and with hopes of becoming the perfect supplement to the US$100 OLPC, the Green WiFi project has designed a solar powered WiFi relay station. The basic idea is that a grid of relaying stations can provide an entire area with internet access without being dependent on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}